countryside & wildlife

There's something incredibly exciting about the resilience of nature in towns: its refusal to be crushed by concrete, bricks or tarmac. Poppies springing up between paving stones, buddleia bushing out from chimney pots – such triumph of life from infinitesimal chances surprises us with pleasure. These random blooms also remind us of what we have lost beneath our roads, houses and shopping centres. They make us think too of what could be destroyed in the future.

Biologic Design

Campaign for Dark-Skies

This offshoot of the British Astronomical Association says an extra 567,000 tonnes of C02 are pumped into the atmosphere annually by inefficient and sometimes unnecessary street lighting (as on motorways).

Plantlife

Praise Bee

A local charity, helping to save and promote the Mason Bee - a good pollinator and not subject to the same diseases and predators as the Honey Bee. They use churchyards and local gardens to create welcome homes for the bees, which they are researching, in order to be of use in spreading info and bees beyond Shropshire.

Shropshire Ornithological Society

Shropshire swifts

A Shropshire-wide Swift Group, who have information and advice on swifts, record swifts in Shropshire, and can asist with the provision of nest boxes. They work with Swift Conservation, and welcome info on new sites. (There are several in Shrewsbury). shropshireswifts@gmail.com

Woodland Trust

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